Terrah
Terrah was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 674 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Terrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Terrah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,011, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1987, the peak
Terrah peaked in 1987, when 33 girls were given it, #2,966 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #15,011 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,732 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,897 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,201 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,626 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,901 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,966 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,044 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,072 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,709 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | #10,398 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,356 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,253 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,762 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,342 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,848 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,059 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,366 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,021 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,958 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,536 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,165 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,340 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,604 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,089 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,565 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,687 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,481 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,687 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,163 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,679 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,771 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,639 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,966 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,015 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,841 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,862 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,426 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #4,016 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,428 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,405 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,533 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,768 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,708 | 20.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,226 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,431 | 6.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,376 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,223 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,507 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,313 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Terrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Terrah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Terrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Terrah, and how old are they?
An estimated 655 Americans named Terrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 26 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 596 people named Terrah (585 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 654 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Terrah?
Terrah is a less common spelling of Terra: SSA has recorded 674 Terrah and 15,434 Terra since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 196,856 babies since 1880, Terrah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 93 babies recorded by SSA was a Terrah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Terrah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Terrah and names like it
- Compare Terrah and TerraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTerrah peaked in 1987.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Terrah since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Terrah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Terrah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.